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Recent Blogs: Interactive Media

An estimated 92 million strong, the Millennial generation is the largest in U.S. history. As the first digital natives, they’re tech-savvy and socially connected. They’re also saddled with student loan debt — an average of approximately $21,000, according to the Federal Reserve.

From the busy business executive facilitating a meeting from a remote location, to a construction contractor accessing cloud-based document management software on a jobsite — mobile technology is everywhere. According to a Cisco report, it’s predicted that Wi-Fi and mobile-connected devices will account for 68 percent of all Internet traffic by 2017.

So your business is doing great, right? You are posting record numbers, achieving goals that you could only dream of when you were a start-up. Here’s the issue: to the casual audience, or even the crowd showing a hint of interest in what your business has to offer, all of these numbers, stats and facts are viewed from a distance as a healthy-helping of “blah blah blah.” In order for your “shining” achievements or statistical information to truly be appreciated and quickly digested by the viewer, you will need to find yourself a better vehicle to capture the attention of any prospect. Preferably, a visual one. According to Hubspot, 40% of people respond better to visual information than text. Much of this impressive number can be directly contributed to the ever-increasing use of infographics.

Dr. Joseph Rock, a psychologist at Cleveland Clinic says that buying a lottery ticket for a giant payoff, like the one that recently passed, is healthy for your brain. You start imagining all the wonderful things you can do with $1.5 billion (like $40 million wasn’t enough), and your brain produces serotonin, dopamine and adrenaline.

Did you know that as of December 2015 there were 3.26 billion internet users? (1) That’s over 40% of the world’s population logging on. For the first time in history, people are going to a single source to shop, learn, entertain themselves and connect to others. It has never been more important to get found online, and it’s no secret that Google is king when it comes to driving traffic to your website. By now you’ve all heard about how important search engine optimization is for your website. However, as Nancy mentioned in Part I, there could be features of your website that are being ignored by Google.